Thanks to the collaboration with the INDIGO-DataCloud project, West-Life users can at first register with the IAM service instance provided by INDIGO, and the use it as authentication method for automatically obtaining an account on the Onedata system. Username/password, SAML and Google indentities are supported by IAM service.

As a common use case, an user wants to copy files to or from Onedata space (e.g. form a grid WN where oneclient tool is not available). In this case he can simply use curl commands. Before running the curl command, It can be useful to export the following environment variables: